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Old 01-12-2007, 01:49 PM   #1
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Creating netinstall/netboot images


Hey guys, I apologize in advance if this has been asked before. I need help with creating a netboot/netinstall image. I have an Apple XServe running OpenSuSe 10.2 as my dhcp and tftp server and I have one clinet machine that is a basic text only install and I have 8 more machines that I want to netboot, and I am not sure how to create a netboot image. If there is any link or info that any one can provide it will be greatly appreciated. Forgive my ignorance, but I am not very familiar with SuSe, mostly just OS X and a little Fedora.

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Old 01-12-2007, 01:54 PM   #2
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I forgot to mention that I have used YDL in the past and I have a disk built that I used as my head node from YDL that has the y-imager tools on it, don't think I can use it to create a SuSe netboot image, but I think I can use it to pass the image out and use it as my netboot server.

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Old 01-12-2007, 02:58 PM   #3
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The easiest way I know of is to build a suse boot cd from the images directory on the first cd. Mount the iso's with loopback and export them via nfs. Boot with the suse boot disk that you created and choose f3 or f4 (I think) and choose nfs as the installtion type. It will eventually ask for your server name or ip and the exported directory. Once you put this in you should be off and running.
 
  


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